Snake Bloggin :)

Common Egg-eating Snake (Dasypeltis scabra), eating a bird's egg, family Colubridae, found in most of Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of the Middle East

this somehow led me to a Reddit thread where users were making ridiculous photoshops of the little guy

Dunno if I have a favorite, but I do like snakes in the Boiga genus

Great question! It does look pretty...intense.

The honest answer is that, for snakes, breathing is just overrated! The process of cracking the shell doesn't take a super long time, and it's no problem for the snake to hold their breath for the five minutes or so they need.

If they need to take a breath during the process, that's where the glottis comes in! See the tube on the floor of this snake's mouth?

That's the glottis, and all snakes have them. They function as a sort of breathing tube while snakes eat, and they can actually move them around their food as they eat. It's pretty wild.